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Battle for Zendikar Limited Deck Archetypes by Eric Harrell

Battle for Zendikar Limited Deck Archetypes by Eric Harrell

Have you wanted to improve at Draft and Sealed? Do you want to scale the MTG league and play amongst the likes of Jon Finkel or Shuhei Nakamura? Well I can’t promise you the latter but I guarantee that this series will make you a more successful player in the Limited Format. Yes, that is quite a bold statement.

Good afternoon, night or early morning! I’ve been recently acquired by Manaleak as a writer. I primarily play the Limited & Standard format. Nice to virtually meet each and every one of you.

If you are competitive, this series will provide a quick assessment for cards in the set in regards to Draft and Sealed. At the same time, this series is great for newcomers to the BFZ (Battle for Zendikar) set and the limited format. I try to explain all terms us MTG sage’s might take for granted so that a beginner can quickly grasp what is meant by a bear. No, not that kind of bear, this kind of bear.

This series grades each card in BFZ for the limited format and provides several archetypes that can help orient your deck building. I try to keep my puns to a minimum as LSV reigns that dark realm, but I do have quite a bit of references and links to ensure this’ll be one entertaining read. One final thing: never be shy of your opinion – yours matters.

Landfall Archetype = Usually an aggressive deck that is composed of permanents with the Landfall keyword. Usually incorporating green for use of green’s land tutoring and ramp spells. GR (Green-red) is the preferred colour.

Eldrazi Ramp/Control Archetype = Requires 4+ pieces of removal in order to eliminate early threats, ramp up mana and play big Eldrazi cards that take over the game. Alternatively, this deck can employ a lot of counters with spot removal. Typically only has three 2-drops and lots of Eldrazi scions.

Life-gain Archetype = Either an aggressive weenie deck with life-gain to mitigate retaliatory strikes or a methodical deck that prefers to gain incremental advantage through life-gain to triggers effects or even as a win condition. BW (Black-white) is the preferred colour.

Flier Archetype = a traditional archetype that typically has solid ground blockers and aggressive flying creatures. This archetype seems strong against Eldrazi ramp/control. Most effective with the blue fliers in the set.

UW (Blue-white) Awaken Archetype = Utilizes the strong Awaken ability on cards primarily from blue and white colours. This deck can afford to be low on creatures and has powerful late game tempo swings. For this reason it never really has a problem with card advantage. Championed and strongly supported by Halimar Tidecaller

UB (Blue-red) /UR (Blue-red) Devoid Variants = Given that these colours have the most devoid creatures, it is possible to craft a deck full of Devoid creatures that synergize well together. A Grixis (Blue-Black-Red) deck can be made as well.

UB Ingest/Processor = Exemplifies ‘Exile Matters’ creatures; Ingest creatures exile enemy cards and the powerful Processor effects use those cards in exile as costs for powerful effects that can take over the game. Championed by powerful rares like Wasteland Strangler, Drowner of Hope and Fathom Feeder.

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